Lesson 18， Hot Animals Around the World： The Koala 世界热门动物：无尾熊 Why are all those people standing in line in the hot sun at the zoo？ Maybe the zoo just opened a koala exhibit. With the suvival rate of native Australian koalas on the rise...
Lesson 17， Precious and Semi-precious Stones 宝石和半宝石 My！ What a beautiful ring you're wearing！ This compliment never fails to flatter and honor the lucky wearer of the ring or other pieces of fewelry bedcked with precious or semi-precious st...
16， When is the best time？ Some people go so far as to say that time does not really exist； it is all in the mind， they claim. Others note that according to astrophysicists， time really does exist； it is inseparable from space， coexistin...
Lesson 15 Webcams： Electronics tool or the end of privacy？ 网络摄影机：电子工具还是隐私终结者？ What are webcams？ The word webcam is a compound word formed from two abbreviations， web from the World Wide Web and cam from camera. Webcams are came...
Lesson 14， Alpine Treasures 乐在阿尔卑斯山 From the Atlantic Ocean to the Ural Mountains stretches the continent of Europe. The most striking geographic feature within this densely-populated area is the Alps Mountain Range， commonly called the Alp...
Lesson 13， The Ivy League Schools： Excellence in Education. 常春藤盟校教育界的佼佼者 The first permanent English settlement in the New World was at Plymouth Bay in what in now the state of Massachusetts in 1620. Merely 16 years later， a group of...
Paris, City of Light, and of art. A playland for lovers and a painter's dream. What better place to situate the Louvre, considered by many to be the world's best museum of art? what makes this museum...
Lesson 11 English in the Caribbean 加勒比海英语 When we hear the word English， we naturally think of the language spoken by those living in the United Kingdom or of the people living in England. We also often think of their language as the int...
Lesson 10， Marlena Smalls and The Gullah： The Revival of a Unique Community 原音再现？ Does the name Marlena Smalls ring a bell？ Probably not. At least not yet. If this large woman with an even larger smile and sparkling eyes has her way， howeve...
Lesson 9 Why Is Basketball So Popular? 篮球热 Soccer and baseball have more fans,but no other sport has increased in popularity so quickly over the past 30 years than has basketball.What accounts f...
